Author: CSIS Senior Policy Panel on the Safe, Timely, and Effective Disposition of Surplus U.S. and Russian Weapons-Grade PlutoniumPublisher: CSIS
ISBN: 9780892063369
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
U.S. Weapons-usable Plutonium Disposition Policy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A comprehensive case study was conducted on the policy problem of disposing of US weapons-grade plutonium, which has been declared surplus to strategic defense needs. Specifically, implementation of the mixed-oxide fuel disposition option was examined in the context of national and international nonproliferation policy, and in contrast to US plutonium policy. The study reveals numerous difficulties in achieving effective implementation of the mixed-oxide fuel option including unresolved licensing and regulatory issues, technological uncertainties, public opposition, potentially conflicting federal policies, and the need for international assurances of reciprocal plutonium disposition activities. It is believed that these difficulties can be resolved in time so that the implementation of the mixed-oxide fuel option can eventually be effective in accomplishing its policy objective.
Disposing of Weapons-grade Plutonium
Author: CSIS Senior Policy Panel on the Safe, Timely, and Effective Disposition of Surplus U.S. and Russian Weapons-Grade PlutoniumPublisher: CSIS
ISBN: 9780892063369
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
US Weapons-useable Plutonium Disposition Policy
Author: Vanessa L. GonzalezA Report on U.S. Weapons-useable Plutonium Disposition Policy
Author: Vanessa L. GonzálezPublisher:
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Category : Mixed oxide fuels (Nuclear engineering)
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Surplus Plutonium Disposition (DOE/EIS-0283) for Siting, Construction and Operation of Three Facilities for Plutonium Disposition
Author: Plutonium Disposition
Author: Glenn ReissPublisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781633210660
Category : Mixed oxide fuels (Nuclear engineering)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With the end of the Cold War and break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, control of surplus nuclear weapons material became an urgent U.S. foreign policy goal. Particular U.S. concern focused on plutonium from Soviet nuclear warheads, which it was feared posed a major nuclear weapons proliferation risk. The United States supported a successful effort to consolidate the storage of Soviet nuclear weapons and materials in Russia, and then began negotiating reductions in weapons material stockpiles. Congress has been closely involved in formulating U.S. policy on surplus plutonium disposition, as well as funding the necessary facilities, operations, and Russian assistance to implement the program. Congressional debate is now focusing on the U.S. program's escalating costs and the Obama Administration's FY2015 proposal to halt construction of plutonium disposition facilities in South Carolina and prepare a new strategy. This book discusses the mixed-oxide fuel fabrication plant and plutonium disposition. It also examines drivers the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) identified for the cost increases of construction projects for plutonium disposition; the extent to which NNSA analysed underlying causes of the cost increases; steps NNSA took to hold construction contractors accountable for their role, if any, in the cost increases; and the extent to which NNSA's most recent estimates met cost- and schedule-estimating best practices.
The Spent-Fuel Standard for Disposition of Excess Weapon Plutonium
Author: National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309073200
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Plutonium Disposition
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Storage and Disposition of Weapons-usable Fissile Materials
Author: Surplus Plutonium Disposition
Author: United States. Government Accountability OfficePublisher:
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
The United States has 57.2 MT of weapons-usable plutonium that it has declared surplus and that still requires disposition. This plutonium exists in various metal and non-metal forms, including pits—the central core of a nuclear weapon. To prevent insidious use of this plutonium, DOE plans to disassemble pits into metal; convert the plutonium metal to plutonium oxide, a powder-like substance; dilute it with inert material; and dispose of it at WIPP. In May 2018, NNSA issued a plan conceptualizing the dilution and disposal of 34 MT of surplus plutonium at an estimated cost of $19 billion over the next 3 decades. Under this conceptual plan, pit disassembly and production of plutonium oxide would take place at one facility and dilution would be performed in another, with both operations expanding over the next decade.This report (1) examines the amount of surplus plutonium in DOE’s inventory that could be converted to plutonium oxide for dilution and disposal and (2) examines DOE’s capacity to produce plutonium oxide.